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38 I SPORTS I December 16, 2020 WEST NEWSMAGAZINE 118 Crandon Drive Clayton $1,649,500 2651 Shenandoah Avenue Fox Park $389,900 229 Quan Avenue Kirkwood $240,000 UNDER CONTRACT 316 Tall Timber Meadows Drive Ballwin $599,000 IS A REAL ESTATE CAREER RIGHT FOR YOU? SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE Call Rory Schwartz Managing Broker 636.394.2424 1049 Ridgeway Meadow Court Ellisville 645,000 1000 Woodsmill Plaza Town & Country www.JoinSelectProperties.com 636.394.2424 348 West Manor Drive Chesterfield $424,900 9851 Sappington Road Lindbergh Schools $299,500 8025 Davis Drive #2E Clayton $150,000 ©2020 BHH Affiliates, LLC. An independently owned and operated franchisee of BHH Affiliates, LLC. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Symbol are registered service marks of HomeServices of America, Inc.® Equal Housing Opportunity. SPORTS BRIEFS, from page 34 of 8-8 with Team Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association. The 2020 Mid-America Junior Cup was played at Lake Forest Country Club. The Mid-America Junior Cup is a competition that began in 1999 as a competition between the Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association and the Kansas City Golf Association, now Central Links Golf. This competition began as an effort to showcase the top juniors from each Association’s respective regions. The event was created to foster camaraderie and sportsmanship between MAGA and KCGA. This will be the 22nd Mid- America Junior Cup with the overall record being 9-9-4. Adams “It certainly was one of the most exciting, thrilling ends to a Mid-America Cup in recent memory,” said Curt Rohe, the MAGA executive director. Team MAGA needed 8.5 points to win the cup. The final match on the course came all the way down to the final hole to make that decision. Leading 8-7 in the overall points, Team KC would win the final match and tie up the overall score 8-8 to keep the Cup in Kansas City for another year. Members of Team MAGA were Chaminade’s Ryan Walsh, De Smet Jesuit’s Blake Skornia, Webster Groves’ Harper Ackerman, Vianney’s John Chapman, St. Joseph’s Academy’s Rylie Andrews, St. Joseph’s Academy’s Drew Nienhaus, Marquette’s Catherine Cronin and Lafayette’s Brooke Bierman. @WESTNEWSMAG WESTNEWSMAGAZINE.COM Priory water polo athlete honored Priory sophomore Sam Adams recently was named a 2019-20 academic all-American by USA Water Polo. He is one of about 500 students in his grade level to receive the honor nationwide. Adams plays for the Saint Louis Area Polo (SLAP) as Priory does not field a team. His coaches are Miguel Figueras, Colleen Lischwe and Taylor Swyers. “I was excited and honored when my dad told me I was nominated for being an academic All-American and I was very excited when it was confirmed,” Adams said. Adams is center defender. “Sam has a bright future in water polo,” said Figueras, who formerly coached at De Smet Jesuit. “He is big and strong. He has battled through some injuries and is developing a strong outside shot. His leg strength is getting much better. He also loves to work out outside of the pool.” Besides water polo, Adams is on the Priory wrestling team and baseball team. “Sam is extremely driven and loves learning,” Figueras said. “He is very coachable and a great teammate. He has been part of the Midwest Zone Olympic Development Program in the past and has made travel teams within this program. “We really love having Sam on our club and representing a school like Priory that doesn’t offer water polo.” Figueras also noted that St. Louis Priory has a reputation of having a very strong rigorous academic reputation, of which, Adams is a part. MICDS, from page 35 trolled the game in the midfield. Our team defending was outstanding led by our center backs, Joe Nicpon and Eric Nohara-Leclair.” While Fischer did not have a crystal ball showing him that the Rams would be playing in late November, he said he thought his club was solid. “I knew we had the potential to be good and the mentality necessary to succeed in the postseason,” Fischer said. “We had a core group of experienced seniors who were very talented and very motivated. I felt that if some of our less experienced players could adapt to the varsity-level speed quickly, we could field a pretty competitive team.” MICDS started off the season by playing three consecutive games that went into overtime, two of which ended in “heartbreaking losses,” Fisher said. With a 1-3 start, the Rams faced rival Priory following three consecutive losses. “We were against a very good Priory team. We were outstanding in that game and won 3-1 which gave us a lot of confidence moving forward,” Fischer said. “We didn’t lose after that.” MICDS defeated Westminster Christian Academy 2-1 in two overtimes to win the District 3 championship. Then came three long bus rides for the Rams en route to winning the first state title in the program’s history. “It still doesn’t seem like it has totally set in,” said Birkel, who earned first-team alldistrict honors and finished with 33 goals and 16 assists at MICDS. “It’s amazing to end senior year on a win. It’s great to finally get a banner in the gym and helps to legitimize the program.” Fischer was happy for his Rams. “They were thrilled,” Fischer said. “I think there was a sense of relief as well that they made it through the season unscathed by the virus and were able to accomplish this goal that they wanted so badly.”
FACEBOOK.COM/WESTNEWSMAGAZINE WESTNEWSMAGAZINE.COM December 16, 2020 WEST NEWSMAGAZINE I 39 HEROES IN HINDSIGHT, from page 11 Some heroes even are patients themselves. Dave Tenorio is used to keeping watch over others as a member of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. But on April 24, all eyes were on him as he made a grand exit out of St. Luke’s Hospital. The SLMPD officer had been in the hospital for more than three weeks battling COVID-19. He was on a ventilator due to complications. When the ventilator wasn’t enough, Dr. Jeremy Leidenfrost, a cardiothoracic surgeon, recommended ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation). The life support technology temporarily takes over as a patient’s heart and lungs. Tenorio spent seven days on ECMO – and it worked. Thanks to Leidenfrost and the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit and ECMO teams, Tenorio made history and became the first known COVID-19 patient in the St. Louis region to be treated with ECMO and released home. • • • Alyssa Hesser is a different type of healthcare worker. A nurse at Geggie Elementary in the Rockwood School District, Hesser has “boldly embraced every aspect of responsibility, communication and support as the district prepared for the transition of in-person schooling,” according to school officials. In advance of the students’ return, Hesser assisted teachers with creating student “pods,” small groups designed to limit transmission, and socially distance classroom arrangements. Once students were back on campus she aded the role of supporting and following up with COVIDquarantined students and staff. Additionally, she communicates health protocols and provides daily care of all students, whose health needs go beyond COVID-19. Hesser is joined in uniquely caring for students’ needs by Taylor Decker, who is a traveling social worker attending to students at Blevins, Fairway, Eureka, Geggie and Ridge Meadows elementary schools. Decker and fellow social worker Betsy Kacena (Ballwin, Kehrs Mill, Westridge, Wild Horse and Woerther elementary schools) have gone above and beyond throughout the pandemic to make sure families had resources, according to district officials. As part of the transition team, Decker helped plan the return to school for elementary and secondary students and created the district’s web-based socialemotional learning information. Both women have gone the extra mile to make sure families feel connected to their schools and students have the resources they need. Kacena has gone so far as to deliver meals, supplies and hotspots to Rockwood families in both St. Louis City and County. Decker, too, made regular deliveries and kept both schools and families informed of changes and needs, set up Zoom meetings and connected families to outside resources. • • • On campus and off teachers have responded to the ever-changing of their students in ways that might go unnoticed by the average viewer but have been game changers for their students. Jeremy Mitchell, principal of Parkway West High, has seen first-hand how teachers have had to switch, sometimes rapidly, from in-person teaching to virtual learning to a combination of both. “If you think about the normal routine of having one lesson plan for each day,” Mitchell said. (But many teachers) were doing three plans for every single day and making sure that they’re hitting the curricular concepts deemed vital knowing that we were in a shortened period any way. The amount of creativity and effort was and is extraordinary. “It’s been remarkable what our teachers have been doing.” Like Mitchell, Cathy Lorenz, principal at Parkway Central Middle School, said it’s been amazing to watch the connections that have been made between teachers and students in the past year, especially in the blended learning environment that had some students on campus and students at home. “They’ve dropped off attendance incentives and prizes to the students at their houses. They’ve made those kids feel connected, kind of like the Publisher’s Clearing House prize patrol. So that has been really cool, to see our teachers thinking outside the box.” Allison Love, principal of Carman Trails Elementary, said, “Our teachers have embraced the unknown in ways that we never would have been able to imagine. The job is difficult because of all the uncertainties but our teachers are pushing through not only for our students but also their love of the job and what they do.” Love noted that the outpouring of support from Carman Trails families has been overwhelming in a great way. “It has given our teachers the fuel and fire to keep going,” she said. • • • Whether our heroes are school district staff members working overtime to ensure that students feel valued and have what they need to succeed, or healthcare workers on the front lines, one thing is true: All of the heroes of 2020 have in common a spirit of community giving that we will do well to remember long after the pandemic ends. trust·ed When it comes to care, you want a place you can rely on – a strong community that provides reliability in this uncertain world. Meramec Bluffs is an established provider of excellent care that our residents and family members believe in, especially during these challenging times. 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